I would stay away from Instant Rails if you can. It may be good starting out, but it is no longer under active development, so you may run into some serious issues down the road.
Here is the tutorial I followed to manually get ruby/gems/rails up and running on a vista machine: http://wiki.rubyonrails.org/rails/pages/RailsOnWindows Hope it helps! Ethan Gunderson On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:57 AM, Carsten Gehling <[email protected]> wrote: > > squashua wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I'm a newbie who's tried over a half dozen times now to install the >> full Ruby and All-in-One RoR app for my Windows XP machine. > ... > > Since you are on Windwos, have you tried InstantRails? > > http://instantrails.rubyforge.org/wiki/wiki.pl > > InstantRails is brilliant, as it does not require any installation. You > just unzip the package into a folder (e.g. C:\instantrails) and run the > "instantrails.exe". > > It loads its own MySQL database and through it you open up a console > with all nessecary environment variables (path, etc) loaded. > > When you quit the instantrails.exe all server processes are > automatically closed. > > if you ever need to "uninstall" instantrails - just delete the folder. > > Try it - I never had any problems with it. Post questions here, if you > experience any. > > - Carsten > -- > Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
